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Jyutpingbou3 guk6
Yalebou guhk
Definition
Overall arrangement, layout, or plan.
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How it's used
Refers primarily to the spatial design of a room or the strategic planning of a situation. It carries a sense of intentional design, often implying that someone has carefully thought out how elements should fit together. While it can describe physical space, it is frequently used metaphorically for complex schemes or long term plans.
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The layout of this house is very strange.
What do you think of this arrangement?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this to describe simple placement of objects like putting a cup on a table. It implies a comprehensive, structural design rather than a single action of moving something.
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Grammar guides
- Directional complementsThe small words added after a verb to show direction of movement, like up, down, out, in, and back. Common in everyday Cantonese.
- DemonstrativesThis and that with 呢 and 嗰, the personal pronouns, and how 哋 turns I, you, and he into we, you all, and they.
- Resultative complementsSticking a result word onto a verb to show how it turned out, like eat until full or look and find. A productive everyday pattern.
